Rock Climbing Training

Season 01

"Workout" No. 011 ~~ JAN/18

Base Fitness Phase – Week 2 (OH MAN. I forgot to update the week on the last couple of posts!)

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It's Day 11 everyone.

GET SOME!

I think the pathway to success in an endeavor like the one we're currently embarking on, is squeak in little wins wherever you can -- and to try to maintain a base level of exercise. Today was another Optional Aerobic Exercise Day, so lets sit down, and talk about our feelings.

OPTIONAL Aerobic Exercise.

January 2018 - Season 1

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I think we all understand by now that we're trying to opt in as often as possible for these days -- and to be honest, days like this are a glorious reprieve from the monotony of the auto-belay. Todays aerobic exercise came from a friendly yet competitive game of squash with some of my friends from work. For those of you that haven't played squash -- you need to drastically re-evaluate the decisions you're making with your life, because you're fucking this one (and likely many other things) up.

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I didn't have the foresight to charge my GoPro for squash this evening -- and I got kind of grossly sweaty anyways. But, last week, I did mention that I brought out my 360fly HD camera (it's not nearly as cool as it sounds, which I'm certain you already assumed). I've got some computer vision projects in mind with the camera, which is why I bought it (but my computer is busy mining ethereum super slowly, and I've almost got enough for a 0.2 ETH payout -- then I'm stopping). But we put the camera in the middle of a squash court and shot some video. It doesn't have a great interface -- so it forces you to pull kinda crummy low-res stills out of the video, but whatever -- it was cheap.

But it was actually pretty fun. I think if I had the patience, I might be able to pull a couple interesting action snips out of the video.

It's also providing me with a plethora of evidence in my case against @caitycat

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The Workout:

The Plan (The Good):

• Do some aerobic exercise if you can, homie!

Objective Review (The Bad):

• You did some aerobic exercise, you unstoppable machine, you.

Subjective Review (The Ugly):

I feel absoloutely great after getting a workout in. As usual.

Getting some exercise always makes me feel like a million bucks, and I'm fired up to get some bouldering done at lunchtime tomorrow. Hopefully nothing gets in the way. fingers crossed

I had a lot of fun playing squash with my buddies today, and I had a lot of fun playing with @caitycat the other day. Here's a shot that I thought looked pretty cool. The colors really popped quite well and the light looked cool.

But you can also capture some pretty good #sportsphotography moments

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Today, In my space that I reserve down here for cool climbing stuff -- I'm gonna give a shout out to the IFSC.

That is -- The International Federation of Sport Climbing. They organize, host, and administer world cup tournaments for a variety of different climbing disciplines -- and do all of the other background stuff related to "climbing as a sanctioned sport". The shout out is primarily for their awesome Youtube channel -- where the post all sorts of great highlights, live-streams, interviews, and more. Maybe I'll comment in one of their upcoming livestreams about d.tube and the amazing things happening on Steem. Check out their website, linked above, scope out the calendar, and maybe throw on a climbing competition while you cook. You'll learn a lot from watching other climbers and studying how they move their bodies to balance.

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The Pitch (This is me talking about how I'm going to spend rewards -- if you're only here for climbing, you can skip this)

After my first few posts, I spent some time thinking about how I can make this space a little sexier. And two things came to mind that could really enable some cool looks at some cool places:

• A drone;
• A van.

I've picked out a nice cheap drone that I think should be a solid introduction to what I'm doing. Check thing out -- the Yuneeq Breeze 4k. It seems to shoot pretty high quality video, and it's way cheaper than most of the other ones. Does anyone have experience with this thing? I'd like to know.

My plan with these posts (aside from keeping a journal, generating motivation and the occasional giggle, and sharing some great climbing content when the good weather gets here) is to fund climbing gadgets (drone) and adventures (van). These will directly enable me to capture more interesting perspectives and get further into these climbing parks and be able to share more about each area.

If you've made it this far down the post, then I give you mad props. Be advised, on one of the @dtube posts I made earier, I ended up getting a pretty juice upvote out of it. It is my intention to use this money as a launch pad to, in some way, shape or form, promote these posts (please tell me what is and isn't acceptable -- please let me know if something is frowned upon).

When this post becomes roughly 24hrs old, I will use a portion of the liquid funds I have available and purchase some upvotes for this post:

• I will leave all SP rewards powered up in my account;
• I don't usually get much of a profit from this in terms of liquid rewards (though it can, and does, happen) -- and you can sometimes get less back than you put in. I will try to choose wisely.
• Get your upvotes in before that, and enjoy whatever curator rewards you can get! I wont do any promotion or resteeming of my own before this -- I'm trying to make this a bonus, as small as it may be, for my followers.

Please upvote and resteem generously. There's some amazing places on the island that I would like to share. I try to respond to all questions and comments that I get, so make some noise! If you have any questions about some of the climbing jargon / lingo I used, just ask, and I'll break it down. I might even make it a feature in my next post, in which case I'll give you some credit, and maybe even some kind of reward... unknown at this time.

Be well, stay safe, and I'll see you on the sharp side (once it dries out around here).

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Previous CRUSHENING posts:

• Day 10
• Day 09
• Day 08